Hysteria over race and sexual disorder has blinded the national media to what actually enabled Robert Aaron Long to commit mass murder on Tuesday in Georgia. For several days after Long was alleged to have killed six Asian women and two white men, the nation’s obsession with racism and sexism…

Giving More Than Jeff Bezos I feel like I’m living the life of a wealthy philanthropist this week. I received my stimulus check from Uncle Joe Biden on Wednesday, and since it’s such a nice windfall, I’m setting aside more than half of it for the charitable organizations that I…

Some readers were beginning to notice the lull in my online activity. I planned to do a lot more with this time in Chiang Mai, but a nasty bout of bronchitis put a crimp in that plan. These things are bound to happen, I’m afraid. This was my first serious…

Young Buddhist Monk Struggles With Questions at Silver Temple Phrawin had a pained look on his face. The 22-year-old Buddhist monk was having difficulty with my question about the flying saucers and alien beings on the floor of the Silver Temple. The temple, formally known as Wat Sri Suphan, is one…

Get Off That Recliner And Start Planning Now The three wheels that make my travel trike go are time, health and income. I was fortunate to retire from working not long after I turned 62 with no debilitating health conditions and a modest Social Security income. When I turned 65…

American Woman Finds Adventure Travel in a Muay Thai Boxing Ring How to define an adventure traveler? There’s really no one way. Some travelers would call an adventure nothing less than barreling down death road on a bicycle at 15,000 feet; others like their adventure in the ease and comfort of…

When you’re an old fossil on the road like me, what’s better than stopping by the side of the road to see an old fossil? This was no pedestrian fossil, either. The world’s oldest, largest intact tree fossil was unearthed recently in the Ban Tak District of Tak Province, Northwest Thailand. I…

Four years ago, the director of the Pata Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, agreed that its lone gorilla on exhibit should be moved to a more suitable location. But Bua Noi, the 31-year-old ape who’s lived in its dingy cage here since she was just a few months old, still mopes…

The author enjoying a late afternoon swim in the clear, warm waters of the Indian Ocean, Uppuveli Beach, Sri Lanka. All I wanted was to lounge at a beach, read and write some, work out a little, sleep a lot. It had been a while since I’d seen a beach…